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Hadley Calls Civil War Inadequate Description of Iraq Email Print

By Dood Abides
02/03/2007 08:53:17 PM EST


Presidential security advisor Steven Hadley declines to call Iraq "apocalypse"


Washington, DC (Rotters) - Presidential security adviser Stephen Hadley yesterday, in a news conference at the White House, steadfastly maintained that the Bush administration was correct in its insistence that the conflict in Iraq cannot be referred to as a civil war. Answering questions from reporters, Hadley stated that the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq was far rosier than some of its misleading language would have some reporters believe. He insisted that the White House had taken great care to have the document reflect what the president believes is the true situation and that it was being interpreted incorrectly by the press.

In response to direct questions from reporters in regards to the White House's refusal to use the term "civil war", Hadley insisted that while that term might have been appropriate at some point in the past, the conflict was now far more complicated than just a civil war. He stated that the White House was determined at this point to merely give facts to the public and not labels.

A reporter then followed up with a question asking Hadley bluntly if the term "Apocalypse" might be more appropriate.

"No, no, that is not what the NIE says," Hadley responded. "You ought to be very clear about that. Certainly, much of the chaos and destruction in Iraq might resemble an apocalypse, but what point does it serve to mistakenly label it this way, bringing a Christian term into the middle of an Islamic tinderbox? It does a disservice to our men and women in uniform and emboldens the enemy. If we leave Iraq before the job is done... and we won't... the world will be facing Armageddon. Theoretically, if anyone is around to still debate the topic, perhaps at that point they might be justified in describing the current situation in Iraq as fitting the criteria for "apocalyptic".


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by Dood Abides on 02/03/2007 08:53:46 PM EST

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"No, no, that is not what the NIE says," Hadley responded. "You ought to be very clear about that. Certainly, much of the chaos and destruction in Iraq might resemble an apocalypse, but what point does it serve to mistakenly label it this way, bringing a Christian term into the middle of an Islamic tinderbox? It does a disservice to our men and women in uniform and emboldens the enemy. If we leave Iraq before the job is done... and we won't... the world will be facing Armageddon.

Theoretically, if anyone is around to still debate the topic, perhaps at that point they might be justified in describing the current situation in Iraq as fitting the criteria for "apocalyptic".

Hadley ought to actually read the Quran before speculating on Islamic  -- versus Christian -- sacred scripture.  

Here's mention from one dedicated Islamic website -- www.submission.org -- of events that may or may not be similar to those in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

[www.submission.org is only one of more than 50,000 dedicated websources on the Quran found on the Internet]:

THE END OF THE WORLD -- CODED IN THE QURAN

"God is the Knower of the future; He does not permit anyone to unveil such knowledge. (of the end of the world).   Only through the messenger that He chooses does He reveal future and past events"[72:27]

Among the duties assigned to God's Messenger of the Covenant was unveiling the end of the world. We learn from the Quran that this world will come to an end:

"We have adorned everything on earth, in order to test them, and thus distinguish those among them who work righteousness. Inevitably, We will wipe out everything on it, leaving it completely barren." [18:7-8]

"When the horn is blown once. The earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly crushed. That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass." [69:13-15]

We also read in the Quran that a new earth and new heavens will replace the present heavens and and earth:

"The day will come when this earth will be substituted with a new earth, and also the heavens, and everyone will be brought before GOD, the One, the Supreme."[14:48]

The cataclysm referred to in the Quran will come only after the appearance of God's Messenger of the Covenant (3:8l) :

"A consolidating messenger, prophesied in the Quran, comes after all the prophets have delivered the scriptures, to purify and unify."  

According to some sources of interpretation for this verse the actual date of this event may have been fulfilled in Ramadan 1408.  

Again, keep in mind that many Muslims consider it sacrilegious to "pre-empt" God's chosen messenger about the specific date and time of this event.   Instead, one should pay heed to the signs indicated in the Quran that the messenger will outline for those who have truly submitted to God.

[I hope I have done justice to the quotes from the Quran -- speaking only as I can as a non-Muslim.]

Still, Mr. Hadley can and should get his facts straight.  Despite his "plea" not to superimpose Christian tradition on Islam -- that is exactly what he's doing.  And -- as usual - the Bush Administration always manages to conflate the situation in Iraq with vague references to weapons of mass destruction.

by FlyCatcher on 02/04/2007 08:43:32 PM EST

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